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Dale Duncan at City Hall: Feb. 15, 2007
Everyone’s bored of the board If there’s one thing city council can agree on these days, it’s that the Ontario Municipal Board (OMB...
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Turn your attention to Spacing Photos, please
Spacing Photos, our daily photoblog of Toronto’s public spaces, has been up and running again for the last two weeks (we took a little hiatus after...
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Goodbye Toro
As magazines go, Spacing doesn’t (or didn’t) have much in common with Toro Magazine. We generally covered different things, though one could...
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[murmur] Winter News
(We sent out the following [murmur] newsletter today. If you’d like to sign up for it directly, you can do so here, just scroll down. Please check...
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Nathan Phillips Square design competition display
The designs of the four finalists in the competition to re-design Nathan Phillips Square will be presented to the public next week. Tuesday, February 20...
By Dylan Reid -
Boost for pedestrians in 2007 capital budget
I just came back from the capital budget open house at City Hall today, and there is good news for pedestrians in the City of Toronto’s 2007 capital...
By Dylan Reid -
Illegal Signs blog launches!
Here at Spacing, we’ve been using the term “ad creep” for years to help illustrate the impact of intrusive outdoor advertising in...
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Toronto, before and after
I love before and after photos. It shows how much things change and how much they stay the same. The above images are looking west on Queen St. West from...
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New York creates the Jane Jacobs Medal
In 1997, a conference here in Toronto called “Jane Jacobs: Ideas That Matter” gathered hundreds of the world’s most prominent thinkers...
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Minding the gap for the Better Way
Today’s Toronto Star has a full-page feature on last weekend’s Toronto Transit Camp. It’s a good feature that tries to show the rest of...
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Sunday’s headlines
• CN disputes strike’s legality [ Toronto Star ] • Escaped slaves helped build Toronto [ Toronto Star ] • Mayors endorse GST scheme...
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Logo Cities
I thought I’d bring Logo Cities to your attention. It’s a really interesting project out of Montreal that deals with the lettering, signs, and...
By Matthew Blackett
Canadian Urbanism Uncovered